Comey was triggered by Trump’s tweet and about an hour later fired off a holier-than-thou response to the president for dubbing him the Deep State FBI ringleader.

JAMES COMEY: “Every time you assault and stereotype a person, you’ve ripped the social fabric. Every time you see that person deeply and make him or her feel known, you’ve woven it.” David Brooks (2/18 NY Times) is right that we all need to be weavers if we are to heal our beloved country.

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“Every time you assault and stereotype a person, you’ve ripped the social fabric. Every time you see that person deeply and make him or her feel known, you’ve woven it.” David Brooks (2/18 NY Times) is right that we all need to be weavers if we are to heal our beloved country.

President Trump gave the former FBI Director the nickname ‘Leakin James Comey’ because he leaked classified memos of conversations he had with Trump in order to prompt a special counsel.

Trump’s tweetstorm on Monday was in response to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s “60 Minutes” interview where he admitted DAG Rod Rosenstein was discussing wearing a wire to record President Trump to remove him via the 25th Amendment.